Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36364
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Pages 243-262 in Benjamin M. Compaine (ed.), The digital divide: facing a crisis or creating a myth? MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 357 pages., Author suggests that the digital divide may be disappearing on its own through declining cost, natural acculturation and growing availability. Observes that the lower cost of living in rural areas may more than compensate for having to pay higher rates closer to full cost of telecommunications.
International: Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C12681
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352 p., Accounts of "50 experiments in empowering people - living in poor countries across the world - to seize control of their own life stories and begin to change their circumstances of poverty, discrimination and exclusion." Case stories involve communication programs in more than 30 countries. Methods range from community radio and local theater to multi-media telecenters.
